Volume 22, Number 9, February 24, 1995
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
Eastern Perspectives for Maglev Rail.
Andean Report
by Javier Almario
Supranational “Justice” for Colombia.
Report from Rio
by Silvia Palacios
Defense Ministry Proposal Draws Fire.
Editorial
Not-So-Strange Bedfellows.
Investigation
FBI Dirty Tricks Target NASA with Phony Scandals
by Marsha Freeman and Jeffrey Steinberg
The FBI’s Operation Lightning Strike is not intended to uncover criminal activity, but to entrap people into committing crimes. A prominent media role is being played by ABC News reporter Brian Ross, well known to this news service for his scurrilous role in the railroad prosecution of Lyndon LaRouche and associates.
The Case of NASA Administrator James Beggs
by Marsha Freeman
Book Reviews
Garfield, the Pythagorean Theorem, and the Fight for Universal Education
by Suzanne Klebe
The Mathematical Universe, by William Dunham.
Economics
‘Tequila Effect’: Argentina’s Financial System On the Brink
by Gerardo Terán Canal and Christopher White
Mexico’s crisis is spreading to Argentina, as even the IMF’s managing director, Michel Camdessus, is now warning that the financial crisis is not local, but “systemic.”
‘We’ve Gotten Out of Depressions Before’
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
From an interview with Lyndon LaRouche.
Currency Rates
British Send Greenpeaceniks To Wage War on Japan’s Nuclear Industry
by Rogelio A. Maduro
Greenpeace is determined that the Japanese plutonium-carrying vessel Pacific Crane will have an “accident”—or else.
Russia’s Banks, Politics, and Organized Crime
by Roman Bessonov
The Disappearing German Farmer: A Candidate’s Perspective
by Georg Neudecker
A candidate for the parliament of the German state of Hesse in the Feb. 19 elections, on the ticket of the Civil Rights Movement-Solidarity.
Business Briefs
Feature
European Roots of the American System of Economics
by Nancy Spannaus
The real lineage of the American System must be traced, not to Adam Smith and John Locke, as the devotees of the Conservative Revolution maintain, but to the cameralist tradition of Bodin, Colbert, Leibniz, and their followers. An analysis by Nancy Spannaus, co-author of The Political Economy of the American Revolution.
International
Terrorist Apparatus Laid Bare in Mexico
by Valerie Rush
President Zedillo took resolute action against the Zapatista insurgency, but he is vulnerable to the heavy pressure he is coming under from many sides, to call off his offensive.
Mideast Peace Accords in Delicate Situation
by Adam East
Sri Lankan President Shows Determination in Pursuing Peace
by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan Maitra
President Chandrika Kumaratunga is forging ahead with her effort to end the 13-year civil war in her country, and the Tamil Tigers are threatening to assassinate her because of it.
India’s Stand on NPT: The Bluster Has Given Way to Tacit Acceptance
by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan Maitra
War Escalates against Rwandan Refugees
by Linda de Hoyos
EIR Warned of Rwanda Genocide in 1990
Italy’s Dini Carries Out Bankers’ Program
by Claudio Celani
Italy: From Politics to Marketing
by Leonardo Servadio
The representative democracy of the 1947 Constitution got corrupted, but today’s direct democracy is worse.
Great Britain: Will ‘Animal Rights’ Be a Mass Movement?
by Mark Burdman
International Intelligence
National
Republican Crime Bills Are Dismantling the Constitution
by Carl Osgood
When the House of Representatives votes against the wording of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, with its protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, it’s time for constituents to sit up and take notice that something really crazy is going on in Washington.
Clinton, Kohl Firm Up Special Relationship
by Edward Spannaus
Perry Confronts the Conservative Revolution
by Leo Scanlon
The Defense Secretary is forced to defend the very institution of the Presidency, along with the Administration’s defense budget.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones and Carl Osgood
National News
